the british style it's sometimes. hard. to. market why not campbell. find out what's really happening to the global economy in cars report on. the latest news on the week's top stories aronofsky the libyan opposition supports against kind of adelphi suffers an unexpected setback for the nato air strike reportedly killing it doesn't. appear so over a potential terrorist attack in europe grow security experts claim the coalition's involvement in it could trigger a radical response intelligence agencies report a rise in terrorist sell tickets and coast of. japan

struggles to stem the radioactive water from the people from the health on the ocean while thousands of homeless tsunami survivors face in uncertain future and out vents in the triangle of government they say he's not doing enough to help. a year off the moscow metro suicide bombing pressure deals are devastating blow to terrorism like in a group of high rank militants the security service raided russia's republican leadership here to circle terrorists in a separate room more of the most wanted man in the country. and next we go underground to explore russia's hidden cold war catacombs. it's always dark in here people who come often face danger using a connection a grenade can go to doesn't work and. rage here a long time ago now they played. an age.

and even perform religious rites with all you know is that there is nothing accidental in god's deeds these manmade caves which are a significant part of russian history attempt to go underground. adesa a city in the south of ukraine from a site republic. at the weekend local because sound on an underground expedition. the most comfortable way to get around the depths of the underground maze is by car. these manmade caves and the world's longest more than two and a half thousand kilometers long to look at it will show me the way as a slave to the right over to the left is normally i go from that side but if you make your choice this is a short cut but over there the scenery is more beautiful ok i'll go to the right

age. locals call these pits catacombs stones the construction used to be ninety as the first excavation began some two hundred years ago. pit stretching over some one and a half thousand kilometers have already been mapped each year research is charred newly discovered caves the schools of kilometers in length. a leg. starvation no longer various. at all save the other end. how many meters there. were twenty ok thanks to the desert catechumens were home to partisan bases during world war two members of the underground expedition hope to find one of the scientists who study caves especially ologists found another passage if they map out the newly found commodore.

but they can't go any further to the pits a flooded they can only continue with the help of diving equipment. the water is too muddy we can't see anything where is the clear deep water just a bit for the room. the pits all look alike underwater and you can lose your way in one time. they have to tread very carefully to avoid kicking up the line side and it's next to impossible to find a way back through the muddy water alexander has been able to determine the pits direction and height. unfreezing. about that bit of passage to. we'll have to look for an alternative route now that will discover another breach of the adesa catacombs.

blood of all stock the main russian military naval base in russia's far east something thousand kilometers from a desolate russian engineers built a fortress here at the beginning of the twentieth century advance time it was the biggest and most modern naval military construction in the world. the sutherland vostok defense frontline was located mostly on and the only way to get there was by ferry it was the military alone which an evil about the existence and location of many underground hideouts for many theaters today the island is open for visitors and members from england of a stoke digger club author to tally dimitri and alexi carrying out scientific expeditions on the weekends named spittle military architecture monuments from

different eras the island has them all including fortifications built by the military engineers of the zones as well as soviet underground hideouts is the key to the maps directions and don't lose your way chances are you'll find those installations the problem go visit their head to some way and thanks beyond the woods it was seeing more than one attempt to find them over to. the ferry to the village of god knows you're on the island of russkie which is its destination in forty minutes the diggers came here to take a look at a unique fortification the vision of battery which for a long time had been a classified facility it was a key element in blood of all stocks defenses for the purpose of these guns was to protect the city from sea and land assaults their range of fire was thirty five kilometers they were never actually used a military purposes and the. the training was fired in one thousand nine hundred two and now the force is a museum. these guns were cast in

a steel works in one nine hundred thirteen. almost sixteen meters long and weigh about fifty tons. principle if you really wanted to it's still capable of firing a. complex of underground structures three stories deep lies underneath a tower enough tenant the shabbat was the last command of the she left battery now retired is the museum's carrington and is only too willing to show guests the underground storage of shells and powder that. they feel i mean this is the third under ground floor located underneath of the tower it's sixteen meters deep the room was used to store shelves and here the shelves. each shell weighs nearly five

hundred kilos a mechanical winch operated by two soldiers was needed to lift the. soldiers did their job like clockwork. between shots it took them less than two minutes to reload the cannon and fire it. if bush at all a show has really loaded the platform goes to the next rock i'll show you how it's done. through other duke shows of various types are rotating racks which of them is loaded depends on the orders of the commanding officer it would be thought out. if you turn around now you can see a rack containing armor piercing shell it's. logical steps first caves were dug in the late nineteenth century. russian military engineers built the world's most powerful fortifications and let it all start after the defeat of the russian naval base a portion of that in one thousand and five during the war with japan. special care was taken to protect personnel from shells the votes were reinforced with for me to

think concrete underground passages were also built between the caves. the fortifications cost seventy three tons of gold which equated at the time to approximately two hundred million dollars it's. known to refer to the cations and let it all stop in the same every fortification has its unique lands pending on a particular district. of fortifications have been built of the highest points. against and of such fortifications could defend independently each holding out for two months of the most vulnerable parts of the fortification where the enemy could dig underneath the buildings dug with a known as come to mind galleries these are the deepest underground vaults of the fortress. we visited soldiers would sit in these alcoves listening to what was happening on the of the sign if they heard someone digging underneath the force

these were extended that way everything would collapse because of the explosion rendering this part of the fortress impenetrable to the enemy. catechumens counted on the ground in all directions the exact opposite of the straight cemented tunnels of vladivostok the soft calculus rock allowing the adesa miners to extract anywhere new mines connected to the old ones creating a complicated network of underground passages with the. sole was found in this process because the curves from the report it still works well they can be used. when you can see how it cuts through limestone you can see how taurus it is. until the one nine hundred seventy s. stone was extracted manually with the help of special some walls but the process became much simpler after a local miner invented a special stem cutting machine. the average depth of the adesa catacombs his twenty

five meters with a million years ago it was actually the sea bed the remains of shellfish slowly builds under extreme pressure to form a solid but night calculus rock layer after layer i guess as they do business there on new forests around the best santa suit scene become be used as building material breaks gone be made in the absence of coal and that the soup be able to limestone and again mining it as soon as it as it was founded and you constructions in the city required more limestone. trucks there was an instrument school buildings in the desert residential houses and theaters shops and restaurants and even churches. today the vladivostok fortress is abuzz with activity each scofield's tear up the

quiet number seven passages. spaces have taken a fancy to the central park to come to comfort attention. to schoolchildren from islam to kill to effect their skills by clearing up until they've settled. if we know that our grandfathers and grandmothers built before it's part of their global history or the other. but we really come here to skate. as a rule risqué here when it's just rainy or saw is no way of life but most of the time the force of the vladivostok fortress acquires. in a peaceful environment of a sinful russian panzer region and that monk seeking silence dug out a small cave in a hillside close to the savannah river. that was in one thousand or one. later of the monks turned the cave into russia's naughtiest underground church. in soviet times the structure was almost destroyed and buried but in two thousand and five

excavations began. later a senior priest restored the church and now services the head of. fifty people can be present at a service in the temple at the same time because that is why the temple is considered the biggest underground temple in russia. the temples history is full of mysteries. according to the legend the cave was the beginning of several underground passages which lead far beyond the monastery territory. the passages have not been found and excavation is still ongoing researchers think the church items may have been hidden underground from the bolsheviks. excavators have already dug up and restored an underground cell when

a homemade monk used to live. it just now we are coming to a special place in our monastery. the old man would have said at this spot he would spend all his time in prayer he would spend ten years here. he would get in the this is the window he was handed food through from the male monastery on the ground the entrance would be sealed up he would talk only to god and spend ten years here praying. tatiana and dennis geophysicists they hope that special equipment will help them locate underground voids to support the rumors which claim the existence of the secret passages.

he came. to. the adesa catacombs the world's largest a manmade underground structure people extracting building stone here for over two centuries often found natural underground cavities filled with clay work was

immediately halted in such places because of fears they could collapse local bakers take special care when examining such dangerous sections of the catacombs. i'm sure the remains of prehistoric animals can be found in the cost carriers of a desolate. clay preserves bones very well with the. level of free now of course the word. red brown clay is a wonderful preserving agent for such. a long. glass here. with the closeness knees of fossilized bones. will give them to the museum of paleontology. but this is a museum of paleontology is one of the best known museums across the former soviet union nearly one third of its exhibits feature objects found in the catacombs

scientists discovered the thousands of years ago the area of what is now a desert was inhabited by desert animals such as hyenas and camels there's also a unique exhibit to perfectly intact ostrich eggs they date back to the third century b.c. but the museum boasts even more valuable finds this fortune who will see a very interesting elaboration of the bearings but they ways interesting question is. this little how has been the subject of debate has had to come back wasn't the result of mechanical treatment someone doubt whether this could have been done by ancient people this is highly unlikely there were no humans of any kind of three to five million years the guy. play helps the paleontologists make discoveries but it makes life much more difficult for geologists looking for an underground passage in the monastery in the panzer region the clay is so thick that

it prevents their instruments from examining cavities in the love. so the geophysicists turned to equipment used for vertical electrical sanding. it can pinpoint underground voids a depth of up to fifteen metres. up already. ornaments let's begin fredricka as soon as you're ready just let me know. the you will turn your nearly got electric shock. what was the voltage about eight hundred volts i would have thought. scientists gauge the soil's electrical conductivity twice they carry on one test where they think a tunnel might be located the other is where they don't expect to find any tunnels this is to help make the results more accurate the test revealed that their own identified cavities around the ministry. the new shows and tony the

churchwarden the outcome of the tests and suggests that excavation work should continue. the holy fathers however have their own version of the underground ministries land. according to the book. the monastery points eastwards when we accidently turned the book upside down the underground monastery revealed an image of the holy mother of god. the two entrances look like her legs the cell is it with a baby's head. is the head of our lady the church and burial vault are her shoulders and streaming robes we don't know whether it's a coincidence or providence all we know is that there is nothing accidental in god's deeds. were. these manmade caves attract artists as well as scientists. and the show is

a professional photographer and journalist some years ago she often to people on guided tours of the caves of the vladivostok fortress it was then that she came up with the idea of an art project to draw public attention to the neglected floor. after two years preparations she began taking pictures of you can read think is wearing long clothes and standing against the background of phillips and underground galleries of the naval fleet. as a result you get something incompatible one lot of times you have current reality if those grandiose properties counted with stupid inscriptions like so in sound has been here on the other you have these creatures. so you get control of the image of the loft and the spiritual as opposed to basic human passions.

think is now intent to draw attention to another underground object but up until now only special service officers knew about. the facility consists of several long tunnels and is a former reserve command point of the region's leaders but. the facility was declassified in the a two thousand and is now completely abandoned. bigger enthusiastic intent to start a cold war museum in these tunnels and they've already got the first exhibit with a guy with. a scary figure it is the will to do is call it boring i mean the guys from the deer club made it as a sort of sawmill of what along on a it was like so a man in a hazard suits wearing a nine hundred fifty eight gas mask symbolizes the cold war years a constant readiness for war. if. very little is known about the

facility to this day. that's why author and vitale scrutinize all the equipment and documents they find in the abandoned halls. and if i can i'll use is a teletype ribbon with some text on it would still work so i have to draw it to find out what it. is ribbon is a very important big and help restore portions of the facilities history. names addresses and other figures that we love to decipher. we've never been past this hatch. let's go. the official blueprints of the facility is still classified so the diggers have to study them sounds. somewhat dangerous containing worn out electric power lines

but that doesn't stop the research is curiosity and they proceed carefully. as is that there are two rooms there connected by a passage a wooden staircase leading up to it's very old fashioned. the bunker was built during the second world war in one hundred forty two it was intended for use by the primordial regions of ministration and had all the resources needed to support people over two months. this is obviously the communications room the inhabitants to receive fresh information make decisions and inform people about their decisions this is over territory would be controls fortunately there was never a real war in these parts so the object was not needed. by contrast severe fighting used to rage in the adesa caves explorers are still finding parties and bases down there. to resistance fighters operating here for to get german and romanian

troops a group of diggers has found the camp ace of one of the partisan units black dust is all that's left of the straw that used to come or one of the beds. here is something big or there's a lot of something. let's try to dig. i found. the partisans were asleep sometimes coins rolled out of their pockets. nineteen twenty two. thirty are once again. the diggers take every object they find to the small museum the cartridges and some points will be added to the collection. these are the weapons the partisans use they represent the types of armaments you would usually find underground. the germans were aware of the location of the camps but they never

ventured into the depths of the stone mines the only exit to the surface was three kilometers from the party's base camp. the past of the camp were blocked up undermined sharpshooters carefully protected the main entrance. normally these barricades were manned by two fighters they were on duty for two hours at a time and it was pitch black here and untrained men found it very difficult to sit here under such conditions very often the partisans saw the light when somebody approached the barricades from the entrances and they targeted the barricades it had to be unassailable. the blood of a stone force of never seen real life fighting today there frequented by members of a million ackman a group response team imitating russian marines. there's

a balance here you well do you read me. the old players submachine guns and pistols are exact replicas of real weapons the only difference is that small plastic balls are used instead of lined ammunition. and the filters are designed for military operations in the first place thirty seconds with a grandfather served here some birds but as a military spirit and the atmosphere of this place where you. will get even the people working here won't serve with me in the same division of the marines quitting solutions so we've got a lot in common i'm no good. in this exercise to stamboul does his soldiers to defend the barracks and follow a path which is seen by. fighting breaks out in the fields under. the russian engineers go for small one hundred years ago still be defended

against modern weapons with and simply says. fatherlessness is going to defend this firing from this niche will full well it'll be counted circle over because the cardinal is exposed gunfire. is also a lever tempted by thick concrete. even a flight of stairs stops attackers in that tracks it was the middle of it or if someone appears from that side the defender first see his feet best to say even if you crawl in all the balls of the first the you'll see is the defenders gurnard. several assault attempts have ended in failure the blood of a stock fortress has proved once again that it cannot be conquered. people have a special fascination with manmade caves the footsteps and flashlights of new

explorers and pound to disturb the quiet darkness of the underground labyrinths fifty years to come but those who've experienced the excitement of the trailblazers are almost bound to return to the sumptuous world again and again.